Software Takes Command
This introduction discusses the permeating presence of software in our society today, stressing that, as a result of this presence, modern culture cannot be understood without »
Simmon Readings
This series of blog posts discusses, in the context of effectively visualizing data, certain aspects of color theory and patterns in the way humans perceive color. »
Profiles in Badness
The three texts we read for today all discuss the process of creating visuals to communicate quantitative information effectively and, more specifically, accurately. The first, a »
Drucker -- Chapters Three and Four
In the first of these chapters, Drucker extends the ideas she developed in discussing static information visualizations to the theory of web interfaces and user interfaces »
Drucker -- Chapter Two
In this chapter, Drucker builds on a selection of ideas she presented in her Introduction and Chapter One. She begins the Introduction by comparing two images, »
Drucker -- Chapter One
In this first chapter, Drucker provides a survey that demonstrates the evolution and emergence of graphics as a means of communicating, representing, and producing information. Doing »
Permutation Matrices and Survey Plots
These are both a set of bar plots that can be independently sorted. They are an improvement upon the traditional bar plot since the sorting allows »